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DVD Format Changing Movie-making

Posted by michael on from the mostly-for-the-worse dept.

rgmoore writes "The Los Angeles Times is running an interesting article on the impact of DVDs on the movie making process. They briefly mention the possibilities of end-users being able to re-edit the movie (with a veiled reference to The Phantom Edit) but focus more on the way that it's starting to influence directors and producers during the course of making the movie."

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  1. Phantom Menace DVD Edits by Nathdot · · Score: 4, Funny

    The article mentioned something about homebrew SW:Ep 1 DVD edits and it got me to thinking:

    *If I could use this technology I'd be able to edit out Jake Lloyd from Star Wars. What Glee!

    *Oohh! Jar Jar has to go... I shoulda thought of him first.

    *Ooohh! And ALL of the freaking gungans!

    *And so on...

    until it became apparent that my new "movie" was nothing more than Natalie Portman footage and light saber duels.

    Alas, who was the cinematic Atlas that put DVD fire in our lowly mortal hands?!

    :)

    PS. I'm still not totally convinced that my home edit would be worse than SW: Ep 1.

  2. Memento edit! by Nathdot · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm gonna edit the Memento DVD so that it plays in correct chronological order and my idiot roommate can work out just what the fuck is going on!

    ROOMMATE
    (perplexed)
    My head hurts! What just happened then??? Who's John G? What the?! Who the?!

    ME
    Here you go somewhere else and watch THIS version! Away with you!

    :)